john mcsame voted with bush 100% of the time in 2008

[GloryB]

Originally Posted by Danno3314

I wondered about this....I may be wrong but, I thought the whole thing about voting along with Bush was misleading because, the way I always understood it to work, is that in congress they either vote along with their party or against....it's not really voting along with the president but, he was a rep and so was McCain in this case.....and it's the job of the whip is to get you to vote along with your party.....both parties have one in the house and the senate (they assist the speaker). You can look up statistics yourself for every session of congress at this site:

This is for the senate and the 110Th congress

Senate voting with party scores | 110th Congress | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com


This is the main page

Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com

Go check it out, you may find it very helpful in the future.

Nothing like a factual post that most people won't bother to read because they already know everything.

Again, quoting Ronald Reagan, "It isn't that our liberal friends are stupid, they just know so much that isn't true."

[Danno3314]

Originally Posted by quelinda

He tried so hard to separate himself from that party but in the end, people saw right through it and recognized that he was a creature of his party and voted with it almost all of the time. Some maverick, huh?

Well that's what I'm talking about, they all pretty much vote along with their party so, a number some where in the low to mid 80's, in terms of the percent of the time they vote with their party line, would make him a maverick compared to others (republican or democrat) if they voted that way consistently. If you go to the links I posted you'll see what I mean. Actually this current session of congress, McCain is at 88% but, this session is not a good representation for either McCain or Obama ....as you can see they didn't vote appox. half the time because they were campaigning. Go back and look at any of the previous sessions and you'll see McCain is near the bottom of the list all the time (the from top to bottom, the top being the ones that voted with their party the most often).

Among the things that were misleading about that statement is that although 90% (actually 88%) sounds high, in terms of voting with your party line, it's not....look at how Kerry and Obama for example.